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Nanoscience --- Study and teaching --- Chalmers tekniska högskola.
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An example of highly efficient, warm, human communication, achieved in times of stress, emerges in the remarkable series of letters that constitutes the bulk of this book. Dr C.J. Mackenzie was acting president of the National Research Council from 1939 to 1943 while General A.G.L. McNaughton, the president, was on leave of absence as commander of Canada's field forces. During this time Mackenzie wrote regular secret letters to the General reporting on the progress being made in the council's laboratories. These letters cover exciting and stimulating years of scientific discovery and development. The council's programs, most of which paid off, included uses of radar for land, sea and air, the first Canadian optical glass industry, a new process for producing metallic magnesium (ending dependence on imports), the pressure suit and other advances in aviation medicine, degaussing and other defences against ingenious varieties of destructive German mines, the work on inspection of munitions in the council's gauge laboratory, temporary refrigeration of ships' holds for carrying bacon to Britain, defensive work on war gases, and work on ballistics. The operation of large civilian scientific institutions during war was new to Canada. Dr Mackenzie became the first Canadian to direct such an enterprise, and his letters give us an unusual opportunity to observe how the council evolved under this pressure. The NRC, a peace-time operation, was turned into a war machine, and grew from a body of three hundred persons to an institution of thirteen hundred smooth operating full-time personnel, without faltering or missing a step. Every relevant Canadian scientific establishment and laboratory in government, industry and university was welded into a single, efficiently functioning implement of war, with Mackenzie at the centre. McNaughton's letters complement Mackenzie's, and reveal the views of British scientists and politicians at the beginning of the war on the scientific capabilities of Canada. They also reveal their volte-face on seeing the NRC's advances. The two men wrote s they thought, and the result is crisp, clear, and straightforward, without an ounce of superfluous material. An epilogue, based on the personal journal which Mackenzie kept daily, covers the period from the last of the letters in 1943 to 1953. Mackenzie was in large part responsible for the council's successful reconversion to peace and for the evolution of several new scientific institutions. These letters provide a fascinating insight not only into the NRC and into Canadian science at war, but also into the relationships of science with government and industry.
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Literary forgeries and mystifications --- History --- Chalmers, George, --- Malone, Edmond, --- Shakespeare, William --- Ireland, Samuel --- Malone, Edmond. --- Forgeries.
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Why would a country strongly influenced by Buddhism's reverence for life allow legalized, widely used abortion? Equally puzzling to many Westerners is the Japanese practice of mizuko rites, in which the parents of aborted fetuses pray for the well-being of these rejected "lives." In this provocative investigation, William LaFleur examines abortion as a window on the culture and ethics of Japan. At the same time he contributes to the Western debate on abortion, exploring how the Japanese resolve their conflicting emotions privately and avoid the pro-life/pro-choice politics that sharply divide Americans on the issue.
Abortion --- Abortion --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Aristotle. --- Christianity. --- Confucianism. --- Dazai Osamu. --- Endo Shusaku. --- Fire Sermon. --- Gordon, Mary. --- Hayami Akira. --- Ihara Saikaku. --- Johnson, Chalmers. --- Kannon. --- Kokugaku. --- Kuroda Hideo. --- Liberal-Democratic party. --- Nakai Chikuzan. --- Ogyū Sorai. --- Ryōkan. --- Sai-no-kawara. --- Shinto. --- Suzuki Shigetani. --- Tsurezuregusa. --- Yanagida Kunio. --- abandonment. --- baby boom. --- bodhisattva. --- bricolage, moral. --- commercialization. --- contraception. --- dreams. --- epidemics. --- folk religion. --- guilt. --- infant mortality. --- infanticide. --- kami. --- life. --- limbo. --- mabiki. --- metaphor. --- miscarriage. --- mizuko. --- neo-Shinto. --- phallicism. --- population. --- rationality. --- reproductivity. --- televangelists. --- umarekawari. --- war casualities. --- yasukuni.
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This innovative study shows that multilateral sanctions are coercive in their pressure on their target and in their origin: the sanctions themselves frequently result from coercive policies, with one state attempting to coerce others through persuasion, threats, and promises. To analyze this process, Lisa Martin uses a novel methodology combining game-theoretic models, statistical analysis, and case studies. She emphasizes that credible commitments gain international cooperation, and concludes that the involvement of international institutions and the willingness of the main "sender" to bear heavy costs are the central factors influencing the sanction's credibility.
Abyssinia. --- Adler-Karlsson, Gunnar. --- African Development Fund. --- Allis-Chalmers. --- British Petroleum. --- Cannon amendment. --- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). --- Cold War. --- Commodity Credit Corporation. --- Defense Science Board. --- Dresser-France. --- European Community. --- European Parliament. --- Ford administration. --- General Electric. --- Gibraltar. --- Groningen gas field. --- Harkin amendment. --- Jackson-Vanik amendment. --- Japan. --- Kem amendment. --- Korean War. --- League of Nations. --- Luxembourg Compromise. --- Marshall Plan. --- Morgenthau, Hans. --- Nash equilibrium. --- Northern Ireland. --- Ohira, Masayoshi. --- Panama. --- Pinochet, Augusto. --- Poisson distribution. --- Poisson model. --- assurance games. --- balance of power. --- bandwagoning behavior. --- buck-passing. --- coadjustment games. --- coercion games. --- costs of sanctions. --- credibility. --- dual-use goods. --- economic warfare. --- expropriation disputes. --- extraterritoriality. --- free-riding. --- hegemonic-stability theory. --- human rights. --- international institutions. --- involuntary defection. --- issue linkage. --- major sender. --- national-security controls. --- neorealist theory.
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